<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> Platform as a service model has certain obstacles, including data lock-in. It is expensive and time-consuming to move data to the alternative providers. This paper presents data storage options in platform as a service offers and identifies the most common data portability problems between various commercial providers of platform as a service. There are differences among their storage models, data types, remote APIs for data manipulation and query languages. Representing data models of platform as a service and data mappings by means of ontology can provide a common layer to achieve data portability among different cloud providers.</p></abstract>

Platform as a service model has certain obstacles, including data lock-in. It is expensive and time-consuming to move data to the alternative providers. This paper presents data storage options in platform as a service offers and identifies the most common data portability problems between various commercial providers of platform as a service. There are differences among their storage models, data types, remote APIs for data manipulation and query languages. Representing data models of platform as a service and data mappings by means of ontology can provide a common layer to achieve data portability among different cloud providers.

Data Portability Among Providers o Platform as a Service

Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Pavlinska 2, HR 42000 Varazdin, Croatia

Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology

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Platform as a service model has certain obstacles, including data lock-in. It is expensive and time-consuming to move data to the alternative providers. This...

Data Portability Among Providers o Platform as a Service

Publié en ligne: 08 août 2013

Pages: 7 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rput-2013-0002

Mots clés
data portability, platform as a service, Cloud Computing

This content is open access.

Data Portability Among Providers o Platform as a Service

Publié en ligne: 08 août 2013

Pages: 7 - 11

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rput-2013-0002

Mots clésdata portability, platform as a service, Cloud Computing

This content is open access.

Mots clés
data portability, platform as a service, Cloud Computing